Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
It's just so useful. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Michael J Gruber committed
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Documentation/diff-options.txt
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@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
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A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
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newline.
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+For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word
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+and, correspondingly, show differences character by character.
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The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
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linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
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overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers